Editorial beauty close-up with metallic eye pigment
A tool-agnostic prompt pattern for high-end beauty photography using colored gel lighting and metallic makeup detail.
Prompt
A tight editorial beauty photograph, extreme close-up framing from forehead to lips.
The subject has closed eyes with metallic copper and gold leaf eyeshadow, highly
reflective and textured. Skin is dewy with a luminous highlight on the cheekbone.
Main beauty dish light centered above camera creating a butterfly shadow under the
nose. A magenta colored gel on a secondary light from camera left casting a subtle
pink wash along the jawline and neck. A cool blue gel rim light from behind on the
right side separating the subject from a pure black background. Extreme skin detail,
pore-level sharpness. Shot on medium format digital, 120mm macro lens, f/5.6.
High-fashion editorial retouching style.
Negative prompt
cartoon, illustration, painting, text, watermark, low quality, blurry, soft focusAspect ratio: 2:3
Tool-agnostic: adapt to your generator.
Why this works
Beauty photography prompts require extreme precision because the genre itself is defined by obsessive attention to detail. This prompt works by describing every element the way a beauty photographer would brief their team.
Framing instruction — “Extreme close-up framing from forehead to lips” eliminates ambiguity about crop. Without this, generators default to standard headshot framing which loses the macro-level makeup detail that defines beauty editorial.
Material description over color names — “Metallic copper and gold leaf eyeshadow, highly reflective and textured” gives the generator material properties (metallic, reflective, textured) alongside color. This produces far richer results than simply saying “gold eyeshadow” because it triggers associations with actual metallic pigment references in training data.
Three-light colored gel setup — The prompt names three distinct lights with specific roles: beauty dish (main), magenta gel (accent), blue gel (rim). Each has a direction and purpose. Colored gel language is well-understood by generators because it appears in both photography tutorials and BTS production content.
Technical specificity — “Pore-level sharpness” and “120mm macro lens” push the generator toward the hyper-detailed rendering that defines beauty work. The retouching style reference at the end sets the post-production expectation.
What to change if it fails
- Makeup not metallic enough? Add “chrome-like reflectivity” or “liquid metal finish on the eyelids” to push the material read.
- Gel colors too strong or unnatural? Reduce to “hint of warm pink from camera left” instead of naming the gel directly.
- Skin too smooth or plastic? Remove retouching reference and add “natural skin texture, visible pores, no airbrushing.”
- Framing too wide? Reinforce with “crop tightly at eyebrows and upper lip, filling the entire frame with the face.”
- Background not pure black? Add “solid black void background, no gradient, no texture.”
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